''Wildguard'' is a collection of comic book mini-series written and drawn by fan favorite penciler Todd Nauck, about a Made-for-TV superhero team assembled in an Series/{{American Idol}} style auditions through auidence voting at wildguard.com

The first mini-series received critical acclaim and coverage from many comic book writers, review sites and TV Guide.

* {{Alien Invasion}}* {{All of the Other Reindeer}} Wandering Eye* {{All There in the Manual}} The series website provides a considerable detail on {{Backstory}} and such.* {{Alternate Company Equivalent}} Several* AmazonianBeauty - Barbrazon and Brawna* AnIcePerson (Freezerburn)* {{Animal Superheroes}} Jun-Go's animal guardians* {{Ascended Fanboy}} Red Rover* {{Badass}} Red Rover* BadassNormal: Wannabe seems to have legitimately formidable combat capabilities* BarrierWarrior The Human Shield* ButNotTooForeign - Grimli Impdore* CatGirl - Kit-en, who, fittingly enough, is a big time heroine in her native Japan.* ChickMagnet - The Romancer, as one of his powers.* {{The City}} Servo City, to be precise* {{Civvie Spandex}}* ColorCharacter Red Rover, Crimson Phantom Vengeance* {{Combo Platter Powers}} Freezerburn. Four, too, but she can only use one power at a time.* {{Dark Age of Supernames}} Crimson Phantom Vengeance (CPV for short). Night Harpy, as well.* {{Day in the Limelight}} Webstrips and subsequent minis have focused on minor characters.* DeliciousFruitPies An ad in the trade paperback shows Four-Teen stopping Speeding Skull with Hostris Fruit Pies.* DumbMuscle - The Lifter ("[[{{Space Mutiny}} If I don't lift,]] [[{{MST3K}} I die, man.]]") and Mover, who tried to develop another super-identity without realizing that his size gave him away immediately, among others. The Romancer and American Icon are borderline.** Human Shield, arguably; while he doesn't show elements of this in the series, his contest bio notes that he only recently overcame his struggle with illiteracy.* DropTheHammer (Lilly Hammer's indestructible hammer. She's had it since she was a little girl.)* EnvironmentSpecificActionFigure: Wannabe already has multiple costumes for different situations for maximum marketability. Like, how many action figures could you really inspire with just one look?* {{Face Heel Turn}}* FacelessEye -Wandering Eye* {{Fourth Wall Mail Slot}} - Wannabe answers the mail after a while.* {{Fun Personified}} Shrubling* GeniusBruiser - Minor background scrub Doc Clobber* {{Gondor Calls for Aid}}* GreenThumb - Shrubling, again.* {{Humongous Mecha}} Strong-Bot is a pretty big robot, but he disguised himself as a larger, more marketable robot to seem more viable for the team.* {{I Believe I Can Fly}}* ImNotADoctorButIPlayOneOnTV - According to his bio, this is the case for Dr. Wattage.* {{Intercontinuity Crossover}}: Wildguard is an established part of Image's larger universe, and it's not uncommon for characters from it to show up in other books.* JerkAss - Toughlon is generally considered one by fans and teammates, but he's just eager. The Ultra Super Mega Five, on the other hand, are the real deal.* {{Legacy Character}} American Icon, Conductra, the Shingle, and Sprints [=McAfree=].* {{Loads and Loads of Characters}}* {{Luckily My Powers Will Protect Me}} Exploding Girl... ''usually''. She can produce an explosion of up to 25 megatons, but she can only do ''that'' once.* {{Mars Needs Women}}: Mortoc Vekk [[spoiler:masquerades as Jun-Go to choose a mate among the heroes attending the auditions. He chooses Ignacia.]] Exploding Girl later laments that Octorilla went after her immediately, noting that monsters always seem to go for the women first. Astro Girl tells her that this is true of many space creatures as well.* {{Merchandise Driven}} Wannabe and Road Rage come to auditions with their toys and costume variants* {{No Celebrities Were Harmed}} Four is modeled after Jennifer Garner among others. The Romancer is pretty obviously based on Fabio. Dorsal Head resembles Vin Diesel.* NotQuiteDead - Crag Langley was crushed into dust, but they said he might not be quite dead and the process might be reversible.* {{Not Wearing Tights}} Ignacia, Travel Agent, and, particularly, Crag Langley, who "looks really stupid wearing a shirt."* {{Outdated Outfit}} Mister Transmuto still thinks the {{Badass Longcoat}} over spandex look from the 1990s is cool; when recruited by the Phenomeneers and given a uniform he specifically mourns the loss of his old look.* PettingZooPeople - Kit-en, Stickerburr, Scattermane, and Dorsal Head.* {{Popularity Power}} Freezerburn was originally going to die in #4, until the polls showed him to be one of the most popular characters.* PlayingWithFire (Ignacia, Freezerburn)* ThePollyanna - Little Miss Sunshine* ProudWarriorRaceGuy - Scattermane, a superfast ambassador from a tribe of lion-men whose natural feline preference for privacy hurts his chances pretty harshly.* PunchClockHero - Super Temp, who's just doing the hero thing until his band hits it big. [[spoiler:''It does''.]]* {{Punny Name}} Just about everywhere* {{Reality Show Tropes}}* RidiculouslyHumanRobots - Subverted slightly by Motherboard, who is actually more of a humanoid computer and is visibly nonhuman.* RubberMan - Snapback and Longfellow.* {{She Is All Grown Up}} Teri Vaughan* {{Shout Out}} Like any Todd Nauck book, it's littered with {{MST3K}} and {{Scrubs}} references.* {{Sizeshifter}} - Blaction Figure and Jack Giant.* {{Stalker with a Crush}} Mortoc Vekk and The Woman in Red* {{Stock Superpowers}}* {{Super Hero}}* {{Superhero Speciation}} Subverted. The final team has two members with fire powers and no one who can fly or has particularly super strength.** In a more general sense, there were at least two heroes representing every power set in the tryouts; Running Girl, Flatfoot, and Scattermane were all speedsters, for instance; Super Temp and Strong-Bot were both Flying Bricks, Longfellow and Snapback were both Rubber Men; Toughlon, the Lifter, the Mover, Crag Langley, Barbrazon, the Romancer, and American Icon (to name but a few) are all just really strong...* TrainingAccident (The plot of the original miniseries. It actually happens ''twice''!)* {{Useless Superpowers}} Adhesor has sticky skin. It doesn't take long to backfire. Toughlon is super strong and durable, but he's also completely non-stick (like, you know, teflon). Little Miss Sunshine can emit beams of light that, while very bright, are only harmful to vampires.* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Mr. Mold's power.* {{What Kind of Lame Power is Heart Anyway}}? - Dorsal Head specifically refers to this when discussing why he wasn't ultimately chosen for the team; He feels that as an aquatic hero, it's easy to be pegged as "only useful in a 'water' situation."* {{Yandere}} - Wannabe, all the way. She's obsessed with becoming a famous heroine and won't let anything get in the way of it.** Lilly Hammer's getting to be this way a little too, with her intense jealousy of Ignacia's popularity.----